This and That

So Alex Rodriguez used steroids. Miguel Tejada is about to cop a plea for lying to Congress about his knowledge of and/or use of steroids. Roger Clemons is putting his head on the legal chopping block for roughly the same reasons. While all of this is a shame on baseball players (not the game, mind you, for the game and the atmosphere which currently surround it are two separate points) I have one simple question about the whole mess: what business is it of the Congress anyway?

Pope Benedict XIV has reinstated an excommunicated priest who, it turns out, is a Holocaust denier. Now the mass media want His Holiness to do more than merely distance himself from the ev. Richard Williamson; they want him excommunicated again. That he should receive some censure I will not deny. Yet I have a simple question on the matter: why doesn't the media support the Church when she speaks of excommunicating those pro-abortion advocates elected to political office?

NFL Hall of Fame quarterback Troy Aikman has finished his degree in sociology from UCLA because he promised his mother he would finish school. That's all well and good, of course, in the sense that a dutiful son should respect his mother's wishes. But there is one question I would like to raise: why should a man who has made his mark on the world, even the sports world, and who has the world at his feet anyway as a well paid sports analyst, feel any pressure to complete school?

The answers?

None.

Because they are liberal hypocrites who only believe in separation of Church and State when it suits them.

He shouldn't. It simply shows how secular society often puts too much stock in formal education.

I hope this settles those questions for you. At the least, I hope it puts them in a more fitting light.